I have a brand new R7500v2 router and new gigabit internet. But when I connect to the internet through the router I do not get gigabit speeds. When I connect directly to my modem I get closer to the gigabit speeds that I shoudl be seeing. See screen shot below: NETGEAR Router R7500v2 Router Firmware VersionV1.0.3.10 Windows 10 Pro v1703 PCKiller e2200 gigabit ethernet card

Started poking around a bit more and decided to hit the "reboot" within the Netgear genie and it seemed to change something with the speeds. So call this resolved and if anyone has the same problems, update firmware and once you've done that log into the router and hit the 'reboot' button in the settings to reboot the router. My speeds are close to gigabit now when I'm LAN connected. On 5Ghz its at ~218/21 which isnt too bad.

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William10a
Master
May 09, 2017
Yes Genie can cause you issue with your internet speeds and many other that have been posted on the community the speed of your wifi internet is very good now from the speeds reported in your posting.
letexier
Aspirant
Apr 13, 2017
Started poking around a bit more and decided to hit the "reboot" within the Netgear genie and it seemed to change something with the speeds.

So call this resolved and if anyone has the same problems, update firmware and once you've done that log into the router and hit the 'reboot' button in the settings to reboot the router.

My speeds are close to gigabit now when I'm LAN connected. On 5Ghz its at ~218/21 which isnt too bad.
- fmiranda
  Aspirant
  May 09, 2017
  So the R7500v2 can handle gigabit intenet speeds? I have that wifi router and will get Gigabit internet this week. I guess I don't have to upgrade my wifi router then?
  A lot of people said that only the R7000 and the R7800 could handle gigabit Internet - I guess its not true then..
  - letexier
    Aspirant
    May 09, 2017
    Yes it can do gigabit speeds. I'm getting the speeds I should via LAN cable.
- William10a
  Master
  Apr 14, 2017
  Possible bad lan cable from the modem to the internet port of the router has been seen before.

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R7500v2 gigabit speed via LAN